The Gnomai of the Council of Nicea (CC 0021)
Subtitle: critical text with translation, introduction and commentary
By: edited and translated by Alistair Stewart
Series: Texts from Christian late antiquity -- 35; Texts from Christian late antiquity -- v. 35.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9781463202606
Subjects: Gnomai; Kirchenverfassung; Christian life; Quotations, maxims; Koptisch; Council of Nicaea (1st : 325 : Nicaea, Turkey); Coptic manuscripts; Negnōmē ntsunodos etouaab; Council of Nicaea. fast (OCoLC)fst01406016
Other titles: Negnōmē ntsunodos etuaab.; Negnōmē ntsunodos etuaab. English.
Description: "The Gnomai of the Council of Nicaea is an anonymous Egyptian work detailing norms of behaviour for lay Christians, with a particular emphasis on the behaviour of ascetics. The work is interesting both as a relative of the church order tradition and through the light which it throws on the social history of fourth-century Egyptian Christians. Originally composed in Greek by a contemporary of Athanasius, it is now extant solely in Coptic. This is the first English translation of the work, and the first text to take account of all the variant readings of the different manuscripts. It is designed to be of use to specialists, but also to be accessible to historians, classicists, and theologians who are without knowledge of Coptic. A commentary and extensive introduction accompany the text and translation."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In English and Coptic.
Table of contents: title: The Gnomai of Nicaea; title: The text of the Gnomai; title: The date and provenance of the Gnomai; title: The genre of the Gnomai; title: The contents of the Gnomai; title: The purpose of the Gnomai; title: Conclusion; title: Sigla; title: Text and Translation; title: Notes; title: Appendix 1: Ostrakon C. 8123; title: Appendix 2: Homiletic material from Giov.AJ included by Revillout and Rossi in the Gnomai; title: Appendix 3: Other fragmentary material from Giov.AJ.